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Actually RAID/volume management is superlimited when not in filesystem...

Actually RAID/volume management is superlimited when not in filesystem...

Posted Jan 18, 2009 0:33 UTC (Sun) by Kamilion (subscriber, #42576)
In reply to: Actually RAID/volume management is superlimited when not in filesystem... by khim
Parent article: Btrfs aims for the mainline

... Yknow, you've basically just described ZFS on OpenSolaris. Check it out.

There's already a FUSE module for linux. If someone bothered reimplimenting the ZFS filesystem with FUSE, shouldn't it be much easier to use it as the basis of a cleanroom GPL2 kernel implementation of ZFS?


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